Why Texas Held Out on the Safety Deal with Facebook

The second largest social networking web site has agreed to raise the bar on their safety measures in order to better protect its users. It has come to this agreement with forty nine of the states and the District of Columbia and has agreed to adopt new safety standards to help more specifically to protect children from sexual predators. So why did Texas hold out on the safety deal with Facebook? What is the deal about and why wouldn't Texas sign the agreement? This particular agreement is similar to the one that was reached by MySpace Inc. that also agreed to raise the bar on safety measures, but Texas would not sign the agreement with them either. Along with MySpace, Facebook has agreed to do several things to its website in order to protect all users, but especially children from sexual predators. Some of those safety... [read full story]